Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-30
Take a chair with a wooden seat

Take chair with wooden seat
an armed office chair is preferable
place in it piece of flannel blanket
so folded that it will fall down in
front; under the chair put % coffee
cup one-thi,,d filled with alcohol; have
a foot-tub in front of the chair with
some warm water for the feet The
patient is seated in natures raiment
only, or, as Mark Twain says, ..in her
complexion." enveloped closely in
over her in front and the other in the
back, outside of the chair. After she
is seated and covered, light the alcohol
with taper; don't risk burning your
self by using a match. The subject
will begin to perspire in from three to
five minutes. If blood rushes to her
head, giving red face and feeling of
fullness in the brain, put napkin
around the neck wrung from tepid
water. This is better than wetting the
head, and it has the advantage of not
taking the crimp out of her hair. Ii
she is faint or sick at the stomach, as
one may be with the first bath, or if
very bilious, let her drink copiously of
hot water or very weak ginger tea.
If the perspiration is slow in starting,
or if the heat is excessive, the surface
may be bathed with sponge dipped
in cold water. Let her remain fifteen
or twenty minutes, or longer if neces-
sary to induce copious perspiration;
she can then be bathed and rubbed
while sitting in the chair. If weak,
or longer perspiration is desired, let
her lie upon bed couch, enveloped in
the blankets, where she can be bathed
under cover if necessary. Let the
manipulation be thorough. Squeeze,
press, and pinch every muscle in the
body, and spat the surface with the
muscle beaten or ends of the fingers,
leaving the wrist free Using the en-
fire acm and palm of the hand makes
hard work and does not give good re-
suits. If the attendant is magnetic
the fingers cause tingling like hun
dreds of needles. Let her lie for an
hour to rest, cool, and Sleep"
The thermal bath is especially use
full in the treatment of all diseases
arising from impurity of blood, mac
tivity of the skin, local Inflammation,
or unbalanced nervous action. 1t is
invaluable for drug poisoning, scro-
| fula, consumption, diseases of the
skin, dropsy, remittent and intermitt-
ent fevers, coughs, colds, catarrh,
| Group, govt, rheumatism, neuralgia,
| diseases of the liver and kidneys,
| bronchitis, chronic diarrhea, etc.
TwO-LINE NOTES FOR GOOD HOUSE.
WIVES.
Boil raspberries six minutes; eight
| ounces of sugar to the quart.
Boil plums ten minutes; eight ounces
of sugar to the quart if needed.
Boil blackberries six minutes, with
six ounces of sugar to the quart.
Boil cherries five minutes; the
amount of sugar to the quart is six
ounces.
Boil ripe currants six minutes;
amount of sugar to a quart, eight
ounces.
Boil peaches, whole, fifteen minutes,
using six ounces of sugar to quart.
| Boil whortleberries five minutes; the
amount of sugar to a quart jar should
be four ounces.
Boil Siberians, or crab-apples,
whole, twenty-five minutes; eight
ounces of sugar to a quart.
Boil pears from twenty to thirty
minutes-twenty for halves and thirty
for whole pears-using six ounces of
sugar to quart can of fruit.